Dec 5, 2017 6:12 PM

I had a professional POD done in PDF, now I have changed my book size and Createspace requires the spine width to be adjusted. Does anyone know how to do that using Paint, Word or some free software so that I can change it on my own and so it will be accepted? Your help is greatly appreciated!

I think you can open and edit a PDF in GIMP, which is free software. Google it. But, if you truly changed your book size, for example, from 6 x 9 to 8 x 10 then you need to recreate the entire cover, not merely the spine.

I will try the GIMP and Libre Software and see what happens. I am not changing from 6x9 to anything else, just my page numbers are now reduced by 50 pages and so the spine is being rejected for that reason.

I did ask the original creator of the POD who used PDF and they suggested I might be able to just "stretch" the spine in a software program.

Thanks so much everyone for all your help. I'll see if these ideas work.